Jayce Barker

Jayce Barker is a popular Traffic Reporter with Network Ten, an Australian television network. Jayce Barker flys over Brisbane in a helicopter reporting on traffic conditions. The helicopter was originally sponsored by "Air Train" Queensland Rails train service that connects Brisbane to the Brisbane International and Domestic Airports. In 2008 the Queensland government changed the sponsorship focus to the "what's your 30" health initiative, in which the government encourages citizens to get 30mins of exercise each day.

Jayce Barker conducts traffic reports throughout the day, but produces a larger traffic report for the early afternoon news bulletin. Jayce Barker uses his unique perspective to recommend alternative traffic routes for drivers commuting home during Brisbane peak hour traffic.

Occasionally Jayce Barker will report on other news events such as house fires or other news items that may only be recorded from a "birds eye view". Jayce Barker reports on House Fire [http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.channel&ChannelID=111945385]

Jayce's unique knowledge of traffic conditions often results in journalists asking for his opinion on issues relating to traffic congestion in the South East Queensland area. For example in the article "Another year of delays crossing Maroochy bridge", By Jane Gardner appearing in www.thedaily.com.au [http://www.thedaily.com.au/news/2007/oct/26/sunshine-coast-bridge-nightmare-continue/] , 26 October 2007. Jayce is quoted ...

“It’s weird. Every morning at exactly 7.26am it gets busy. I think people try to leave that little bit early to make it on time.

“I know for a fact, I don’t even have to check it out, I just say it’s going to be busy on the bridge as usual. I call it old faithful.

“I got a bit of crap because I started calling it the MRB, because I got sick of saying Maroochy River Bridge all the time .. it really is a tongue twister.

“When I first started three years ago, I really struggled to find something to talk about in the afternoons. Now I can always rely on the old faithful bridge, we know at least that’s something to fall back on.”

“The whole traffic phenomena in Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast is only a new one,” he said.

“Sydney has always had traffic, but here it’s relatively new and I think people are unfamiliar with it.”